Top of the Bay Pet Lodge takes pride in our ability to care for your beloved pet, not only to meet their needs, but yours as well. We have distinguished ourselves in quality pet care, knowledge, customer relations and satisfaction. Our facility has been praised highly for cleanliness, politeness, honesty, availability, care and concern, quality work, and most of all the return of happy and healthy pets. Top of the Bay Pet Lodge services include Boarding, Daycare, Pet Grooming, Show Grooming, Obedience Training and Professional Show Handling.
Services
Puppy Whelping and Raising: At Top of the Bay Pet Lodge we are very involved in not only caring for, training, conditioning and the presentation of the show dogs entrusted to us, but for the birth and raising of some of those dogs as well. We extend to other breeders the opportunity for us to whelp and raise their litters.
I'm Greg, the owner of Top of the Bay Pet Lodge. In 1989 I flew from upstate NY, where I was raised, to look at purchasing what was then Belle Kennels. I fell in love with the area and followed through with the purchase. I am a professional show dog handler and have traveled throughout the country exhibiting show dogs for our clients.
Reviews (10)
Dana Rivas
May 15, 2022
John Fratini
Mar 17, 2022
Patrick Molloy
Dec 15, 2021
Zero stars, if I could. A ridiculous farce of kennel. Charged me $114 to board my 80 pound lab for ONE NIGHT. They charge a full day if you pick your dog up after 11 am. Also, it is a mandatory $30 fee to "wash your dog" that they don't tell you about until you're dropping off your dog. Go to Keverton's in Easton. Late pickup is $10. No stupid $30 bath markup. Top of the Bay? More like Bottom of the Barrel. Skip this place.
Dawn Bilbrough
Sep 23, 2021
They take care of the dogs, however the place is run down and disorganized! The kennels are clean, but the facilities need a really good cleaning & overall makeover! The layout is so dysfunctional it causes the employees to spend so much time running in circles! This place needs to be torn down & built over to be functional & run properly & smoothly!
Sarah Braxton
Sep 08, 2021
John Rueckel
Jul 27, 2021
John
Jul 17, 2021
We boarded our 2 three year old beagles here for 4 days. The place is very dated, but it appears safe. They use a two gate system to keep dogs in, which was our main concern given the nature of beagles. The reason for my review is for the extremely poor, rushed nail trimming job they did on one of our beagles. We called over 5 hours before pickup to state that we would arrive around 5-5:30PM to pickup our dogs; we arrived at 5:20PM.
When we walked in, they indicated that they had forgotten to clip our one dogs toes. They said they would do it right then. They did, and the $20 nail trim took all of about 2 mins. This was shocking to me, as our vet and normal groomer usually take much longer, but nonetheless we paid our bill and left. About 10 mins later down the road we noticed blood everywhere on my wife's shirt, front seat, and dash.
Four nails, one on each of her paws were bleeding very heavily. It was not a small drop of blood, but a very noticeable and alarming amount. They were cut way, way too short. We live close by and immediately called the pet lodge to notify them of what was going on, and ask what we needed to do. Their comment to my wife was, "this happens here all the time, just put some baking soda on them or anything startchy." They did not offer any apology whatsoever, and frankly acted surprised that we would call them with such a small issue as having a dog with 4 profusely bleeding toe nails.
It is also not common with professional nail trimming, and it has never happened at any point in the past when we have had them done at our vets office or normal groomer. We have always paid someone to do it because we understood how incredibly painful it is for them to get cut too short. After this treatment we could never trust them to provide any service for our dogs, and frankly have serious concerns for their grooming ability and judgment.
It would be one thing if it was one nail, and they apologized; dogs can move, I get it. This, however, was a botched rushed job that resulted in extreme pain for the dog, 4 bloody toenails, blood all over my car, and an excuse that "it happens all the time."
When we walked in, they indicated that they had forgotten to clip our one dogs toes. They said they would do it right then. They did, and the $20 nail trim took all of about 2 mins. This was shocking to me, as our vet and normal groomer usually take much longer, but nonetheless we paid our bill and left. About 10 mins later down the road we noticed blood everywhere on my wife's shirt, front seat, and dash.
Four nails, one on each of her paws were bleeding very heavily. It was not a small drop of blood, but a very noticeable and alarming amount. They were cut way, way too short. We live close by and immediately called the pet lodge to notify them of what was going on, and ask what we needed to do. Their comment to my wife was, "this happens here all the time, just put some baking soda on them or anything startchy." They did not offer any apology whatsoever, and frankly acted surprised that we would call them with such a small issue as having a dog with 4 profusely bleeding toe nails.
It is also not common with professional nail trimming, and it has never happened at any point in the past when we have had them done at our vets office or normal groomer. We have always paid someone to do it because we understood how incredibly painful it is for them to get cut too short. After this treatment we could never trust them to provide any service for our dogs, and frankly have serious concerns for their grooming ability and judgment.
It would be one thing if it was one nail, and they apologized; dogs can move, I get it. This, however, was a botched rushed job that resulted in extreme pain for the dog, 4 bloody toenails, blood all over my car, and an excuse that "it happens all the time."
Deanna Clemmer
Jun 28, 2021
Cristie Cabrera
Jun 20, 2019
They were very accommodating. I drove in from out of town and they saw me when I got in. They took great care of my cat, Athena, and dog, Zeus. My pets did NOT want to leave. Plus, they had so much fun that they slept the entire ride home, which was about an hour and a half. They did not have too much energy the next day either. Lol! I go to St. Michael's about 10 times a year so I will be stopping back at Top of the Bay Pet Lodge again.
Johnny Quesenberry
May 12, 2018
We have been using Top of the Bay for years and love the staff! Extremely friendly and I love that the owner lives on site so the animals are never alone. My English Mastiff can be very timid - the first two times I practically had to drag him in - by the 3rd time his tail wags, he is excited, and walks right on in. The only draw back is the appearance, the place is a little outdated - not a fancy dog spa. But personally, I care more about the staff and how they treat the animals.
